Liz Cheney's full MSNBC interview with Ari Melber
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Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Liz Cheney, the former Congresswoman and Vice Chair of the January 6th Committee, speaking out in a new book. |
| 0:05.3 | She is back in the news as one of her former colleagues in Congress is pushing today for what he calls |
| 0:10.9 | probing the Jan 6 probe, while another ousted Speaker McCarthy says he's leaving Congress. |
| 0:15.5 | There's also today new indictments related |
| 0:18.7 | to Trump's fraudulent electors plot in a new state, Nevada. |
| 0:22.4 | So we're gonna get to all that tonight with Ms Cheney, |
| 0:24.8 | drawing on her experience. And the position she took is the only member of then-Republican |
| 0:29.1 | leadership and one of only 10 House Republicans to ultimately cast an impeachment vote over that insurrection. |
| 0:35.0 | Cheney, of course, key to the bipartisan Jan 6 Committee, which was deemed by independent |
| 0:39.2 | experts as one of the most effective congressional probes in our modern era. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm sure you remember some, if not all, of these evidentiary hearings. |
| 0:47.7 | Cheney drawing on her government experience to navigate the clashes over evidence, |
| 0:51.6 | testimony, how to get and then tell and convey a full |
| 0:56.2 | accounting of what was Donald Trump's multi-part conspiracy. And I'll tell you |
| 1:02.1 | this as well tonight in an era where so many people |
| 1:04.0 | ask whether facts still even matter. We know the committee's work actually |
| 1:08.1 | reached tens of millions of Americans presenting the evidence the testimony at those hearings and we have |
| 1:14.5 | indications that they impacted some prosecutors pursuit of justice here they |
| 1:19.2 | led also to two precedent-making convictions of Trump aides who tried and |
| 1:23.2 | basically failed legally to defy those investigative and |
| 1:28.0 | lawful congressional subpoenas. |
| 1:30.6 | All of this provided new evidence that impacted many cases from holding Fox News |
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